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Mechanical (character)
The mechanicals are six characters in ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' who perform the story within a story, play-within-a-play ''Pyramus and Thisbe''. They are a group of amateur and mostly incompetent actors from around Athens, looking to make names for themselves by having their production chosen among several acts as the courtly entertainment for the royal wedding party of Theseus and Hippolyta. The servant-spirit Puck (A Midsummer Night's Dream), Puck describes them as "rude mechanicals" in Act III, Scene 2 of the play, in reference to their occupations as mechanic, skilled manual laborers. The biggest ham among them, Nick Bottom, becomes the unlikely object of interest for the fairy queen Titania (Fairy Queen), Titania after she is charmed by a love potion and he is turned into a monster with the head of an donkey, ass by Puck. The characters' names are Peter Quince, Snug, Nick Bottom, Francis Flute, Tom Snout, and Robin Starveling. Peter Quince Peter Quince's name is derive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metrical Rhythm
In music, metre (British spelling) or meter (American spelling) refers to regularly recurring patterns and accents such as bars and beats. Unlike rhythm, metric onsets are not necessarily sounded, but are nevertheless implied by the performer (or performers) and expected by the listener. A variety of systems exist throughout the world for organising and playing metrical music, such as the Indian system of '' tala'' and similar systems in Arabic and African music. Western music inherited the concept of metre from poetry, where it denotes the number of lines in a verse, the number of syllables in each line, and the arrangement of those syllables as long or short, accented or unaccented. The first coherent system of rhythmic notation in modern Western music was based on rhythmic modes derived from the basic types of metrical unit in the quantitative metre of classical ancient Greek and Latin poetry. Later music for dances such as the pavane and galliard consisted of music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Neveux
Georges Neveux (1900–1982) was a French dramatist and poet. Neveux's first notable work was the play ''Juliette, or Key of Dreams (Juliet or the key to dreams)'', written in 1927 and produced in 1930. It became the basis of Theodor Schaefer's 1934 melodrama ''Julie aneb Snar'' (Julie or the Book of Dreams) for piano, jazz instruments, and small orchestra; for Bohuslav Martinů's 1937 opera ''Julietta'', and for the 1951 film ''Juliette, or Key of Dreams''. During the 1930s, when he was general secretary of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, he wrote little. In 1943 there appeared ''Le Voyage de Thésée (The Voyage of Theseus)'', which was also later adapted by Martinů as an opera ''( Ariane'', 1958). In 1945 he translated and adapted Shakespeare's ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''. Neveux also wrote numerous filmscripts, although he greatly preferred the theatre. As he said: 'the first because one must earn a living, the second because one must deserve to live'. In 1982 he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Supervielle
Jules Supervielle (16 January 1884 – 17 May 1960) was a Franco-Uruguayan poet and writer born in Montevideo. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times. He opposed the surrealism movement in poetry and rejected automatic writing, although he did adopt other techniques of modern poetry. In so doing he anticipated the literary movements of the late 1940s, including the work of such authors as René Char, Henri Michaux, Saint-John Perse or Francis Ponge. Amongst his admirers are René-Guy Cadou, Alain Bosquet, Lionel Ray, Claude Roy, Philippe Jaccottet and Jacques Réda. Personal life Supervielle was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, to a family in charge of a bank; his father was from Béarn and his mother of Basque origin. His parents both died before he was a year old, during a family visit to France, and he was raised first by his grandmother and later, on returning to Uruguay, by his aunt and uncle. He began writing fables at age nine. In 1894 he moved to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Louis Supervielle
Jean-Louis is a given name, especially for French males. Notable people named "Jean-Louis" include: * Jean-Louis Alléon-Dulac, French naturalist * Jean-Louis Aubert, French singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer and producer * Jean-Louis Baribeau, Canadian politician and a Member of the House of Commons * Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor, director and mime artist * Jean-Louis Baudelocque, French obstetrician * Jean-Louis Beaudry, Canadian politician and entrepreneur * Jean-Louis Beffa, French businessman * Jean-Louis Béland, Canadian politician and Member of the National Assembly of Quebec * Jean-Louis Bergheaud, better known as Jean-Louis Murat * Jean-Louis Berlandier, French-Mexican naturalist, physician, and anthropologist * Jean-Louis Bernard, French author * Jean Louis Berthauldt (1907–1997), a French-born costume designer also known as Jean Louis * Jean-Louis Borloo, French politician * Jean-Louis Bourlanges, French politician * Jean-Louis Bruguière, French judg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Quince
Peter Quince is a character in William Shakespeare's ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''. He is one of the six mechanicals of Athens who perform the play which Quince himself authored, "The Most Lamentable Comedy and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe" for the Duke Theseus and his wife Hippolyta at their wedding. Titania's Fairies also watch from a distance: Moth, Peaseblossom, Cobweb and Mustardseed. His name is derived from "quines" or "quoins", which are interlocked oversized corner blocks used by masons to add extra strength at corners and edges of stone walls. Characterization Quince's amateurish playwriting is usually taken to be a parody of the popular mystery plays of the pre-Elizabethan era, which were also produced by craftspeople. His metrical preferences refer to vernacular ballads. Despite Quince's obvious shortcomings as a writer, Stanley Wells argues that he partly resembles Shakespeare himself. Both are from a craftsmanly background, both work quickly and both take s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joiner
Joinery is a part of woodworking that involves joining pieces of wood, engineered lumber, or synthetic substitutes (such as laminate), to produce more complex items. Some woodworking joints employ mechanical fasteners, bindings, or adhesives, while others use only wood elements (such as dowels or plain mortise and tenon fittings). The characteristics of wooden joints—strength, flexibility, toughness, appearance, etc.—derive from the properties of the materials involved and the purpose of the joint. Therefore, different joinery techniques are used to meet differing requirements. For example, the joinery used to construct a house can be different from that used to make cabinetry or furniture, although some concepts overlap. In British English joinery is distinguished from carpentry, which is considered to be a form of structural timber work; in other locales joinery is considered a form of carpentry. History Many traditional wood joinery techniques use the distinctive mater ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snug As Lion - Louis Rhead (before 1918)
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Snug may refer to: * Snug (''A Midsummer Night's Dream''), a character in Shakespeare's ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' * Snug (piercing), a type of piercing * Snug, Tasmania, a small town on the D'Entrecasteaux Channel, in the municipality of Kingborough in Tasmania, Australia * Snug Corner, a town on Acklins island, Bahamas * Snug, a den or small room * Snug, a character in the webcomic '' Ugly Hill'' * Snug, a small private room within a public house A pub (short for public house) is in several countries a drinking establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption Licensing laws of the United Kingdom#On-licence, on the premises. The term first appeared in England in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Quince At The Clavier
"Peter Quince at the Clavier" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, ''Harmonium''. The poem was first published in 1915 in the " little magazine" '' Others: A Magazine of the New Verse'' (New York), edited by Alfred Kreymborg. It is a "musical" allusion to the apocryphal story of Susanna, a beautiful young wife, bathing, spied upon and desired by the elders. The Peter Quince of the title is the character of one of the "mechanicals" in Shakespeare's ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''. Stevens' poem titles are not necessarily a reliable indicator of the meaning of his poems, but Milton Bates suggests that it serves as ironic stage direction, the image of "Shakespear's rude mechanical pressing the delicate keyboard with his thick fingers" expressing the poet's self-deprecation and betraying Stevens's discomfort with the role of "serious poet" in those early years. The poem is very sensual— Mark Halliday calls it Stevens' "most convincing expression of sexual desire". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. Stevens's first period begins with the publication of ''Harmonium'' (1923), followed by a slightly revised and amended second edition in 1930. It features, among other poems, " The Emperor of Ice-Cream", " Sunday Morning", " The Snow Man", and " Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird". His second period commenced with ''Ideas of Order'' (1933), included in ''Transport to Summer'' (1947). His third and final period began with the publication of '' The Auroras of Autumn'' (1950), followed by ''The Necessary Angel: Essays On Reality and the Imagination'' (1951). Many of Stevens's poems, like " Anecdote of the Jar", " The Man with the Blue Guitar", " The Idea of Order at Key West", " Of Modern Poetry", and "Notes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
